World Aug 18 Power Station Visit Sums Up Iraq’s Troubled State of Electricity Affairs BAGHDAD | "Let me tell you a joke," the man in the blue jumpsuit and white hard hat said to me Wednesday. "A family joke." I was standing in one of the control rooms of the four-stack Doura power station…
World Aug 17 Security in Baghdad a Deadly Serious Business BAGHDAD, Iraq | The Royal Jordanian flight from Amman no longer has to make a missile-avoiding corkscrew landing on the runway of Baghdad International Airport. And though our security detail had us don 10-pound body armor jackets for the ride…
World Aug 16 Iraq’s Best and Brightest Gone Missing AMMAN, Jordan | On Sunday night, we made a quick stop-over in Jordan on our way to Iraq. Our mission for the next three weeks: to see what Iraq looks like after seven years of war and U.S. occupation. Does…
World Jun 04 Former State Department Adviser on Why Mideast Peace Is Stuck Over 20 years, through Republican and Democratic administrations, Aaron David Miller witnessed the fits and starts of the Mideast peace process while serving as an adviser to six secretaries of states. Miller, who is now a Woodrow Wilson Center…
Politics May 28 Obama’s National Security Strategy, Brought to You by Secretary Clinton When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton came before a crowd of foreign policy players and former players, journalists and wonks to lay out the Obama administration's new National Security Strategy Thursday, she was self-assured and in command, talking…
Nation Apr 25 Amid Calls for Transparency, Pope Describes Dangers of Digital Age Pope Benedict XVI, right, at a digital media conference. Photo by Morgan Till. VATICAN CITY | We've come to Rome for a week to explore how the new wave in the Catholic clergy sex abuse scandal is being seen…
World Mar 16 Yemen Dispatch: Battling Insurgents Yemeni security forces are working on honing their counterterrorism tactics in the battle against a resurgent al-Qaeda affiliate in the region — AQAP, or Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. It was AQAP that recruited and trained the would-be Christmas…
World Mar 03 AP Reporter: Aftershocks Send Chileans Running for the Hills On Wednesday afternoon, Associated Press reporter Michael Warren joined us by satellite from Concepcion, Chile, where he has been reporting on the aftermath of the massive earthquake there and the numerous strong aftershocks. “People are jittery,” Warren told us,…
World Jan 25 Former Intelligence Officer on Foiled Bomb Attack The Christmas Day bomb plot against a U.S. bound airliner triggered soul-searching within the administration and on Capitol Hill over why the multiple bits of troubling intelligence about alleged Nigerian perpetrator Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab weren’t pieced together in time to…
World Jan 14 Haiti: A Haunting History Lesson In all the public statements we've heard about the Haitian tragedy -- from President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton or USAID chief Rajiv Shah -- no one had mentioned a key concern underlying the aggressive U.S. response. But…